Monday, 25 April 2011

urgh... revision

Upon spending around two hourseach day for the past three week revising for two exams in June, it's fair to say I'm a tad sick of it. Next week, I have "exam week" at school. Which... is..... lovely.... :@
    *discalimer* this post will be very boring, not worth reading at all, more for me than the rest o the world.
The exams I have are: Maths, English, Religion, French (probably writing, reading, listening) history, classical civilisations, Home-economics (bleurgh, not my choice), biology, and maybe in chemistry. So naturally I'm dreading those.
       While revision isn't really required for english, and biology is only a very small amount, and history and classics I am already quite well-prepared for as I have modules coming up in those subjects anyway that I've been revising for, that just leaves maths, french, RS, HE, and possibly chemistry. Which is NOT good news, as if the truth be told, I haven't learnt a thing in maths all year, and there is a LOT to learn. French I am already quite good at, but again, a LOT of learning (especially of verbs)w ill be required. Religous studies will also be a good chunk of the text book, and while I could spent hours deliberating over the different types of bacteria used to grow cheese-mould, and the coagulation of egg-protien, I don't think I'll be revising much (if at all) for home-economics. 1)because (shoot me) I don't put much stock in non-achademic subjects. well, other than art and drama. home economics? please. I don't want to be a chef. and I can't help that. 2) this subject is not ability-set, so even if i did absolutely atrociously, I wouldn't be "moved-down" as such. 3)I think I'll probably do OK in it without revision. It's mostly just common sense. eg:Q How could we make these biscuits more healthy? A: by using brown flour instead of white, and adding dried friut. <--- not exactly rocket-science. but mainly, because these exams DON'T COUNT FOR ANYTHING. When things do actually count for something (GCSE) I do work my BUTT off. so I don't think they can complain when an A* student hasn't spent hours revising for tests that mean nothing.
    I HOPE there won't end up being a chemistry test, because the truth is I know nothing of the natures of metallic vs covalent bonds, andgiant atomic structures. and that would be a LOT of learning.

mmm.... we'll see how it goes.
RANT OVER.

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